Kent and I have been going gangbusters on Chapter 5, and I thought I'd take a few minutes to talk about what to expect.

As of today, 2/19, it feels like we're approximately 50% of the way through the update.

The first half of the game was really about setting up the dominoes for how they'll begin falling in the second half. We almost succeeded too! In the interest of transparency there are two things that will happen in Chapter 5 that were originally planned for Chapter 4. This is actually a very good sign to us that we gave the story enough runway in the remaining five updates to complete it.

We do not have any new features planned for Chapter 5, with the possible exception of an official Brazilian Portuguese translation, so development time is being spent entirely on producing story content.

If the player is on the Jaye path, she is now wondering if she's set her sights too low with MC given what she discovered at the end of Chapter 4. It's fair to say that they are now both of keenly aware of how much bigger this might be than either of them expected at the beginning of Chapter 1.

If the player is on the Mallory path, advancing that relationship felt pretty straightforward until the surprise at the end of Chapter 4.

With both relationships potentially at a crossroads (see what I did there?) Chapter 5 will focus on how MC and the two main girls handle this new information, and how they decide to act on it. While the Polygene story is still simmering in the background, it does take a half-step back in the coming update while our main characters reflect on everything that's happened so far, and begin to look at who they want to be going forward...And with whom.

While all of this is going on, it's hard not to notice that the island provides a number of other tempting distractions everwhere one looks.

Additionally, we'll see answers begin to materialize for many of the questions we see most often: Is Mallory a clone, or...Something more exotic? Why did Christian stick up for Sarah? What's Amanda's condition? What did Lisa have to say at the end of Chapter 4?

As always, we thank everyone for their patience while we work on delivering the best story we can. We're also grateful for the bug reports and other feedback that helps us course-correct and pushes us to do a little better each update!